North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Wikimedia Foundation v. National Security Agency (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-115-17, 46 pp.) (Diaz, J.) No. 15-2560, May 23, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Ellis, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A split 4th Circuit panel vacates dismissal of plaintiff Wikimedia Foundation’s lawsuit ...

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Boone Ford, Inc. v. IME Scheduler, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-108-17, 12 pp.) (Rick Elmore, J.) (Chris Dillon, J., dissenting) Appealed from Watauga County Superior Court (William Coward, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Since Superior Court Judge Jeff Hunt was not ...

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G.G., by his next friend and mother v. Gloucester County School Board (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-084-17, 5 pp.) No. 16-1733, April 7, 2016. Holding: Upon consideration of the unopposed motion to vacate preliminary injunction, the court vacates the preliminary injunction ...

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Knight v. City of Fayetteville (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-012-17, 34 pp.) (Louise Flanagan, J.) 5:15-cv-00208; E.D.N.C. Holding: Even though it turned out that plaintiff’s decedent was in the process of throwing his gun when the defendant-police officer shot him, dash-cam ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death

Heyer v. U.S. Bureau of Prisons (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-051-17, 43 pp.) (Traxler, J.) No. 15-6826, Feb. 23, 2017; USDC at Raleigh, N.C. (Dever, J.) 4rh Cir. Holding: A profoundly deaf plaintiff detained as a sexually dangerous person wins remand ...

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Kolbe v. Hogan (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-050-17, 116 pp.) (King, J.) No. 14-1945, Feb. 21, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Blake, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The en banc 4th Circuit upholds Maryland’s Firearm Safety Act of 2013, which bans the ...

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Crouse v. Town of Moncks Corner (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-045-17, 24 pp.) (Wilkinson, J.) No. 16-1039, Feb. 15, 2017; USDC at Charleston, S.C. (Houck, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A police chief has qualified immunity from this civil rights suit filed ...

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Hamilton v. Pallozzi, Sup’t of Md. State Police (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-044-17, 26 pp.) (Floyd, J.) No. 16-1222, Feb. 17, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Bredar, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Although a Virginia convicted felon who now works as a ...

Tagged with: Gun Rights

Smith v. Munday (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-032-17, 31 pp.) (Gregory, J.) No. 15-1092, Feb. 3, 2017; USDC at Statesville, N.C. (Voorhees, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit reverses summary judgment in this civil rights suit for defendant police officer ...

Tagged with: Drugs

Semenova v. Maryland Transit Administration (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-007-17, 17 pp.) (Thacker, J.) No. 15-2125, Jan. 10, 2017; USDC at Baltimore, Md. (Motz, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A Maryland bus rider’s disability discrimination suit alleging the Maryland Transit Administration violated ...

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